Publications by HighlandR
Time To Shine
Blogging and social media for introverts – How to spot an introvert You may have seen David Robinson’s recent post encouraging R users to start blogging. Some folk will willingly act on this advice, and others won’t. For those that won’t, I know who you are. You. Yes, you, trying to hide at the back. I can spot an introvert. I...
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Data Driven DIY
Statisfix – Which fixing should I buy? I have a bathroom cabinet to put up. It needs to go onto a tiled plasterboard (drywall) wall. Because of the tiles, I can’t use the fixings I normally use to keep heavy objects fixed to the wall. And bog standard rawlplugs aren’t going to do the job. So what should I buy? YouTube to the resc...
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Data Driven DIY
Statisfix – Which fixing should I buy? I have a bathroom cabinet to put up. It needs to go onto a tiled plasterboard (drywall) wall. Because of the tiles, I can’t use the fixings I normally use to keep heavy objects fixed to the wall. And bog standard rawlplugs aren’t going to do the job. So what should I buy? YouTube to the resc...
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Hardwired..for tidy text
Song lyric and sentiment analysis for all So – a while back I did a tidy text analysis on Faith No More lyrics. I had thought about doing this with Metallica album lyrics, as they have had a long career, spanning thier late teens/twenties to their 50’s. However, I found the process of obtaining lyrics and getting them into shape for analysis ...
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Enter SadMan
Yet more Metalliplots I’m just going to tidy up some issues from my last post where I did some tidytext analysis on the legendary rockers – Metallica. It was a fun way to pass some time and keep my hand in with text mining, something I still don’t seem to get around to doing in the day job. I was pretty annoyed at not getting my faceted spl...
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Theory free tidyeval
Getting our feet wet with dplyr programming – I’ve been putting off trying to suss out dplyr’s tidy evaluation for a long time, but I’ve been experimenting a bit with it so just making some notes here. It’s hard to talk about tidy evaluation / Non Standard Evaluation without getting into a whole load of theory, but I’m goin...
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No strings attached
a faceting function with bare variable names in ggplot2 – I’m working on a package of dplyr and ggplot2 functions that I can use on a day to day basis to plot data over time. I’ve done some basic experimenting with my preferred ggplot2 theme settings (highlandrthemes – it’s a thing), and the next stage is to get some commonly u...
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backed by data
Minmising risk of delayed departure – This post is an attempt to answer this question: https://community.rstudio.com/t/how-to-answer-a-question-without-statistical-tests-but-is-backed-by-data/3711 It was a pretty interesting question, and I had an initial stab at providing an answer, but the charts I submitted were not the best looking...
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AphA Scotland – it’s a thing
Reflections on AphA Scotland launch event – On Tues 8th May there was only one Scottish based member of the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (me) but on Wed 9th May that number rose to around 80 with the launch of the the Scotland AphA Branch. The event took place in the very nice Perth Concert Hall, and consisted of se...
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simpler SQL with dplyr
comparing dplyr with SQL nested queries – Following on from my last post, where I demonstrated R to some first time R users, I want to do a wee comparison of dplyr V SQL, so that folks, particularly those in the NHS who might be R curious, can see just what the fuss is about. To do so I want to recap on the example I showed at the AphA...
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